Flash player: announcement- you need to update your Flash
J DeRyke
I realize Adobe, not 10/4Fox, is responsible for the lack of back-compatibility of Flash with G-4s. But invariably when a flash-compatible video pops up, YOUR software announces "Cannot play. Please upgrade your Flash player" and pops up a link to a flash player that is incompatible with non-Intel computers.
Suggestion: DELETE the announcement- it serves no purpose except to aste tome & irritate. I have selected the phony link a few times in hopes that Adobe has gotten the message that G-4s aren't going away, but so far they're too busy...
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Support Staff 1 Posted by Cameron Kaiser on Aug 10, 2013 @ 01:59 AM
TenFourFox internally has no such prompt, although it is possible (if settings are altered to a non-standard configuration) to make it complain that plugins in general are out of date. If you have altered your settings to enable plugins, you are using an unsupported configuration.
That said, I'm not entirely certain the prompt you are describing is that complaint. A screenshot and the exact version number would be helpful.
2 Posted by jack deryke on Aug 10, 2013 @ 07:07 AM
OK- next time it happens I'll grab it. BTW, I just updated to 17.08/7450; I
was using 17.0?/7400, so that may help things. The new app seem faster too,
Thanks for replying- JD.
3 Posted by spidennis on Aug 11, 2013 @ 05:48 PM
This happens with me too, same exact thing. In safari I was able to find some version of flash which I installed so I can play videos on Facebook and listen to Pandora.com. Would this, could this work here on tenfourfox?
oh yeah, that human spam protection thing, what color is the sun? a trick question?
Support Staff 4 Posted by Cameron Kaiser on Aug 11, 2013 @ 06:53 PM
We don't support Flash, so I can't answer that question. To do anything further with this, I'll need someone to take a screenshot and respond with their exact version number.
5 Posted by jack deryke on Aug 11, 2013 @ 10:47 PM
Cameron. it just popped up again (a tiff is attached) so my upgrade to
7450/ 17.08 was not a cure. My Mac G-4 is a seamless dual-boot machine
running OS 10.4.11 & OS 9.2.2 under Classic support. The exact same website
on this machine under Safari or Camino does not show the above. So I
conclude it's either a small bug in Ten4Fox software or it's related to a
lack of popup-ad-blocking or maybe no built-in spam-filter. I can live with
it- its just one of those 21st century annoyances I'd like to avoid. Anyone
know of a stand-alone pop-up-ad-blocker that works with my current
7450/17.08 Ten4Fox? Thanks for the attention.
Support Staff 6 Posted by Cameron Kaiser on Aug 11, 2013 @ 10:52 PM
Yes, this is not TenFourFox; that's the site itself. The reason Camino and Safari don't show this is because they load the Flash plugin, so the warning does not appear. TenFourFox does not, so the site loads its warning code instead.
Although TenFourFox can be modified to "pretend" like it's loading the plugin, which would suppress the warning, this will also mean that sites that have non-Flash alternatives will not load them either because they'll also think the plugin has loaded.
The bottom line is, there is no satisfactory option that I know of to make it behave as you're requesting, short of altering TenFourFox's source code (which you can do, but is probably a bigger task than you had in mind). Sorry.